Political Identification and the Defining Issues Test: Reevaluating an Old Hypothesis.
Research on the association between the development of moral judgment (as measured by the Defining Issues Test [DIT]; J. R. Rest, 1979) and political attitudes has demonstrated that these factors are often reliably related. N. Emler (1987,1990) and colleagues have asserted that DIT scores actually m...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 148; no. 1; pp. 43 - 61 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
February 2008
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